Shoutbox

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Originally posted by SonicSam

Assuming your BIOS supports it (and is enabled if you can enable it, it's possible the option doesn't exist in the bios but it supports it by default).....right click Computer -> Properties

Should no longer show "(3.0GB Useable)" and be 4GB

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Just tried this bit as i was curious...





Does this mean its already enabled?

If my laptop is running with 4gb of ram, and it is this slow/laggy I am VERY disappointed!

At least it saves me installing Windows 7 64-bit!

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Task Manager says this:



Now I'm confused...

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Just tried running the commanded and restarting... Task Manager still says 3069 and computer properties still says 4.00gb

Isn't this good?

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Originally posted by SonicSam
Isn't this good?

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no! lol stupid windows needs to make up its mind about how much memory it has... ¬_¬

Install Windows 7. The system being slow/laggy won't be solved by having 1GB more addressable or not, but moving from Vista to 7 in general does fix slow/laggy issues. More addressable ram would just be added benefit.

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Originally posted by M73A

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Originally posted by SonicSam
Isn't this good?

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no! lol stupid windows needs to make up its mind about how much memory it has... ¬_¬

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It means it sees 4GB physical ram in "Your computer" * but it can only use/address 3GB for the OS's system memory**

* Hence the window you see is about your computer, the hardware... and it is also titled as such...

** Task manager is all about the software, the OS. It doesn't care about hardware.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605

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Originally posted by SonicSam

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Originally posted by M73A
if my machine doesnt support it will anything go wrong?

if i restart and it still shows 3gb how do i disable it?

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Nothing will go wrong.

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Be carefull though. See the extra info in KB 929605 (second link above)

hm, thanks cookie. I shall definitely be disabling it as it didn't work!

* M73A opens up command prompt!